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Kenji Kawaike, Professor
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The Disaster Prevention Hydraulic Engineering Lab studies how water disasters such as floods, sediment disasters, and storm surges occur, and how to prevent or reduce the damage they cause. By combining field observation, hydraulic model experiments, and numerical experiments, the lab examines river systems as a whole, from the upper reaches to the river mouth. Alongside fundamental research in hydraulics and hydraulic engineering, the lab also carries out applied research on how flood protection facilities can be made compatible with the natural environment and ecosystems. The lab is located in the Uji River Open Laboratory of the Disaster Prevention Research Institute, where experiments can be run using more than 30 facilities, including a long flume and a large-scale plane basin.
Ryosuke Uzuoka, Professor
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The Geotechnical Disaster Prevention Engineering Lab clarifies the mechanisms of ground disasters that occur in urban areas and studies how to improve disaster resilience. In cities that extend from low-lying land to the surrounding hills, the risk of liquefaction during earthquakes, failure of ground in residential land developments, and slope failure is increasing. The lab works to improve the diagnosis of vulnerability and the assessment of risk for these disasters, and to develop techniques that improve the performance of ground and foundation structures. The lab approaches these problems from every angle, including nonlinear dynamic analysis based on effective stress analysis and model experiments using a geotechnical centrifuge.
Nobuhito Mori, Professor
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The Coastal Disaster Prevention Engineering Lab conducts interdisciplinary research, from fundamentals to applications, on coastal disaster prevention and mitigation in coastal areas and the sea. Drawing on coastal engineering, physical oceanography, and meteorology, the lab studies high waves and storm surges generated by typhoons and low-pressure systems, and tsunamis generated by subduction-zone earthquakes. Preventing and mitigating natural disasters is a problem shared by the whole world, not just Japan, so the lab pursues universal research whose results can be used in many countries. The lab also focuses on research that predicts how coastal disasters will change over the long term under global warming scenarios.
Michio Sanjou, Professor
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The Waterfront Ground Science Lab studies the movement of water and sediment at the waterfront, where rivers and the sea meet. Sediment accumulated at a river mouth can block the river, but it also keeps saltwater from intruding and helps maintain sandy beaches. Based on turbulence hydraulics, the lab treats rivers and coasts as one continuous system and uses experiments to study how sediment and driftwood are transported. The lab belongs to the Advanced Measurement for Water Disasters Division of the Disaster Prevention Research Institute, and is also a cooperating chair (Waterfront Ground Science Division) of the Department of Civil and Earth Resources Engineering in the Graduate School of Engineering.
Mamoru Kikumoto, Professor
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The Computational Science Lab studies the behavior of geomaterials such as soil and rock, predicting it with theory and numerical computation. Many civil engineering problems are multiphysics problems, in which the mechanics of solids, liquids, and gases and the transport of matter and heat occur at the same time. The lab covers everything from building models that describe material properties, to large-scale computation on supercomputers, to applying them to real problems. It also carries out laboratory tests and field measurements to validate the models.
Aiko Furukawa, Professor
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The Earthquake Lifeline Engineering Lab conducts research to reduce earthquake damage to structures. Targeting lifelines, bridges, historic buildings, and more, it reproduces their behavior during earthquakes by combining vibration measurement, numerical analysis, and experiments. It investigates structures damaged in earthquakes in Japan and overseas, identifies why they failed, and proposes countermeasures for the future. It also pursues research on structural health monitoring, which evaluates the degree of damage to a structure from how it vibrates.
Yutaka Ichikawa, Professor
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The River Basin Management Engineering Lab studies the movement of water in rivers and river basins. It clarifies the pathways by which rain falling on a basin flows out into rivers, and builds mathematical models that predict that flow. On that basis, it considers river and basin management to prevent and reduce water problems such as floods and droughts. The main research method is numerical analysis, and the lab also makes field observations during flood events.
Hideaki Yasuhara, Professor
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The Geofront Systems Engineering Lab studies how to create, protect, and maintain underground space in an environmentally conscious way. The lab investigates how the ground, rock masses, and groundwater, from the surface to deep underground, behave under forces and water, and also develops measurement technologies for this purpose. It also studies geo-risk management, an approach to managing underground space that takes into account uncertainty in ground properties, societal demands, and costs. The lab also works on research related to ground-related disasters, such as monitoring slope failures and tsunamis caused by submarine landslides.
Masamitsu Onishi, Professor
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The Planning and Management Lab studies infrastructure such as roads and ports, and the social systems involved in preparing for disasters. Focusing on "infrastructure systems" and "disasters and crises," the lab aims to develop civil engineering planning as a science of practice rooted in the field. Using methods from economics and mathematics, the lab analyzes investment in projects, infrastructure maintenance, and preparedness for disaster risk. The lab is also known as the Onishi Lab. Its website lists the titles of bachelor's and master's theses, as well as a day and a year in the life of the lab.
Nobuhiro Uno, Professor
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The Urban and Regional Planning Lab studies transportation engineering, urban planning, and transportation planning, making it a so-called "planning-oriented" lab. Cities are places to live and work, but they face many problems involving the environment, transportation, landscape, and land use. The lab builds theoretical frameworks to solve these problems and conducts empirical research that applies the theories in real cities. It aims to observe and analyze cities and to put the results to use in real society.
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